I'm pretty sure Win 98's Wordpad saved in Word 6 format.

I don't have Word 2007 but look in help to see what it says about Word Ver 6
documents. MS doesn't like these documents as they believe they are security
holes.




<alamo@nomail> wrote in message
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>I have thousands of documents created under W98 and saved as .doc
> files that I need to transfer to my new computer running Vista Home
> Premium. Neither WordPad v.6, which came with Vista, nor Word 2007
> recongizes .doc files. I'm looking for suggestions how I can
> convert these files, preferably in large batches, to make them
> readable under Vista.
>
> Thanks,
> Signa[/color]